Policy & Op-eds Papers

• The ABC of electrcity theft: Can anti-theft cables improve electricity service?" VoxDev, March 2026 https://voxdev.org/topic/energy-environment/abcs-electricity-theft-can-anti-theft-cables-improve-electricity-service

• "Can Civil Services Reform succeed without local government empowerment?" The Dawn, May 2025. https://www.dawn.com/news/1906520

• "Local governments could be game-changers in countering extremism." Pakistan Today, March 2025. https://profit.pakistantoday.com.pk/2025/03/17/local-governments-could-be-game-changers-in-countering-extremism/

• "Mothers' mental health key to boosting childhood immunization in Pakistan" (with Zainab Khan), The Dawn, Feb 2024. https://www.dawn.com/news/1808745

• "Civil services reforms: Breaking the status quo" The Dawn, April 2023. https://www.dawn.com/news/1748961

• "Why and when countries have to go to IMF?" On my twitter thread, Mar 2023. https://twitter.com/javed_younas1/status/1636933535721308160?s=46&t=LtIxhKwQXbFQ9WeRcOafQA

• "Why Pakistan must do better for its better half." The Dawn, Jan 2023. https://www.dawn.com/news/1733716

• "Where SBP is going wrong in dealing with the current crisis." On my twitter thread, Jan 2023. https://twitter.com/javed_younas1/status/1618956909192814592?s=46&t=LtIxhKwQXbFQ9WeRcOafQA

• "Why Pakistan must replace electricity subsidies with a voucher and rebate system." The Dawn, May 2022. (with Ayesha Ali). https://www.dawn.com/news/1691755

• “Can an effective local body system counter violent extremism and terrorism in Pakistan?”  The Dawn, November 2021. (with Akbar N. Khan). https://www.dawn.com/news/1661124

• “Where does Pakistan's electricity go." Mahbub ul Haq Research Centre, LUMS July 09, 2021. (with Ayesha Ali).  https://mhrc.lums.edu.pk/where-does-pakistans-electricity-go

• “Addressing the woes of Pakistan's electricity distribution sector." The Dawn, June 2021. (with Ayesha Ali).  https://www.dawn.com/news/1629670

• “Economic fallout of COVID-19 for developing countries and road to recovery.”  (2020) American University of Sharjah online publication: https://www.aus.edu/research/covid-19-research 

• “The toll of terrorism.” (2015). Finance & Development, International Monetary Fund (with S. Bandyopadhyay and T. Sandler). https://www.elibrary.imf.org/view/journals/022/0052/002/article-A009-en.xml

•  “Terrorism: A threat to foreign direct investment.” (2014). Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, The Regiona Economist. (with S. Bandyopadhyay). https://www.stlouisfed.org/publications/regional-economist/october-2014/terrorism-a-threat-to-foreign-direct-investment

•  “Increasing political freedom may be key to reducing threats.” (2009). Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, The Regional Economist. (with C. P. Aubuchon and S. Bandyopadhyay). https://www.stlouisfed.org/publications/regional-economist/october-2009/increasing-political-freedom-may-be-key-to-reducing-threats

• “Educational investment considered an imperative for economic development.” (1996). Business and Economics Review, The News International.